Our Mission
The Illustration major is for students who love drawing, painting, and image making. Many creative and professional pathways open up to to illustrators who develop a strong personal style in their work and use their skills to support the communication needs of a variety of clients in multiple contexts, including but not limited to: editorial illustration, comics, children’s books, murals, concept art, animation, design, and creative direction.
Program Learning Outcomes:
Students majoring in Illustration will:
- Engage and utilize past and present theories and histories while evidencing professional mastery of relevant methodologies, skills, and tools applied to a broad range of media.
- Cultivate, model, and continuously improve confidence in one’s communication skills, including listening, writing, empathizing, negotiating, presenting, critiquing, and reflecting
- Define, iterate, and evaluate solutions for problems using a forward-thinking and reflective studio practice.
- Apply purposeful risk taking designed to produce content, concepts, and formal outcomes that feed personal passions and professional growth with the aim of positively impacting the future of humanity.
- Demonstrate best professional practices, including editing and presentation of work, networking, time management, project planning, budgeting, and collaboration.
- Actively seek out and utilize cross-disciplinary studies and extracurricular activities so as to grow as a well-rounded artist and engaged citizen of the world.
Degree Requirements
All programs’ curricula are developed in response to Program Learning Outcomes, which signify what students learn within a degree program or emphasis area. All program learning outcomes respond to overarching Institutional Learning Outcomes. View the BFA in Illustration program learning outcomes here or request information.
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